Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

csny - deja vu

fabulous diamonds

Whaddaya think?

Total slugfuckers influence, I like.

fabulous diamonds

Whaddaya think?

Total slugfuckers influence, I like.

-- wilter, Wednesday, July 9, 2008 3:03 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Link

it hasnt arrived yet, lousy siltbr33ze. in the interim though, i saw them with psychedelic horseshit, and they were totally great. they made this total tweaked-out dude pass out onto a blind guy right in front of me. no shit.

I just got outbid by some german douche on 6 different Buck Owens LPs on ebay. The weak dollar is killing us, dudes

first they come for our used records....

"Lotti Golden - Motor-Cycle"

worst album ever!

Ha!

Not sure where the chatter started, but that album is suddenly being mentioned everywhere. Is it really that bad? I listened to a couple of songs online. Overcooked, definitely. And as they're all pretty long tracks, so I kept finding myself thinking they were gonna take off 'any second now'.

But they don't.

the waltz project nonesuch
electronic music 3 on turnabout
orquesta de musica moderna de oriente
grupo de experimentacion sonora - 25 anos cine cubano revolucion
erotic drum band - plug me to death
this psych mix: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5d1hme ok not a record
el topo ost on apple

xpost overcooked is definitely the right word for it.

Isn't there a Christgau review of that Lotti Golden that says something like "If you like the [presumably crappy] lyrics on the sleeve, you might dig" or something like that? And he gives it a D or something?

Way xpost, but anyone who listens to a whole LP of Saga is a better man than I.

The Saga LP would have gone straight into the sale pile, were it not for the cover. Sounds like it was culled from AC Slater's ipod.

i don't know what to buy anymore. what should i really buy? i mean really REALLY buy

only intrstng things pls

i know one! i need Black Ark on vinyl

anybody here give up on ever winning anything interesting on eBay?

i haven't bought anything on ebay in a while. i'm cash poor.

i'm credit rich and i buy loads of uninteresting things on ebay

:(

i only buy stuff from peoples ebay stores anymore. bidding gives me agita, there are too many hedge fund managers building their psych LP collections* for me to bother bidding anymore. too many people, too much money, almost no possibility of winning unless you've got ridiculous amounts of money to spend.

* this is the image i prefer to obsess about while yelling and punching my monitor after losing yet another LP in the last five seconds of an auction.

also, speaking of stupid prices:

http://www.raw-tcsd.com/3rdCoast.htm

anyone want to sell their car and loan me the money for a copy of the phafner LP? $9000.

yeah it's gotten pretty ridonkulous. it was bound to happen. i can remember, years ago, when i would go to the flea markets in philly, i could count the people/diggers i had to beat to the stacks on one hand. one hand! seriously. i can name them for you. we had the entire city to ourselves. for years.

that's why i'm glad i'm getting older and lazier and less concerned about that stuff. i'm happy as a clam with a stack of medieval church music records that nobody wants.

i just got a pair of Gaunt 7"s for 99p. Found them while peeking in the list of stuff finishing in the next few minutes.

jay reatard 7" #4 went in like 40min today

My own recent vinyl purchases (lots and lots and lots and lots of them lately) still chronicled here:

Rolling "I'd Buy That for a Dollar!" Thread 2008

Just found Frightwig's Phone Sexy 12" in a charity shop, woo.

I suppose that should go on the I'd Buy That For A Dollar thread as well :)

My only purchases for the last month:

Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Baby OST
Dr. No OST
Herbie Hancock - Hear, O Israel repress
Matmos - Supreme Baloon

Just got the Shades - Ward & June Never Understood 12" (punky Texas power-pop from 1980) off Ebay, arrived today. Been looking for that one for a while :)

newsflash:
henry rollins buys all the noise releases i want

just got:
V/A we <3 the blowtops 2X7"
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE sung tongs
JAY REATARD singles 06-07
FABULOUS DIAMONDS s/t
JAY REATARD/DEERHUNTER split 7"
MICHAEL HURLEY snockgrass :))))
DOUBLE DAGGER sophisticated urban living 7"
NOTHING PEOPLE anonymous
MEAT PUPPETS s/t
TERRY RILEY songs for the ten voices of the two prophets
STEVEN HALPERN/GEORGIA KELLY ancient echoes
HUGGY BEAR weaponry listens to love

en route:
SIC ALPS us ez
NOTHING PEOPLE s/t
HOME BLITZ weird wings 12"
METH TEETH bus rides 7"
(SMOG) knock knock
(SMOG) red apple falls
BILL CALLAHAN woke on a whaleheart
ROYAL TRUX pound for pound
ROYAL TRUX hand of glory

oops delete that nothing people from the en route group

portlane, maine record shopping:
jim ohlschmidt - pieces for 6 & 12 string guitar
buddy bohn - places
ian matthews - if you saw thro my eyes
v/a - texas piano styles 29-37
v/a - chicago blues in the early '50s
the stanley bros of virginia vol. 1
miles davis vol 1 (w/ mclean, blakey et al.)
bill quick reish LP on Time-Lag

HI IAN!

i hadn't bought vinyl in MONTHS! i've been busy ripping 8 bajillion CDs before i get rid of most of them. and then i got these today!

bill haley and his comets - rock around the clock (had to, for history's sake)
harry nilsson - everybody's talkin'/rainmaker
harry nilsson - jump into the fire/the moonbeam song
hall and oates - maneater/delayed reaction
george michael - faith/hand to mouth (!!)
poison - talk dirty to me/want some, need some
olivia newton-john - physical/the promise (the dolphin song) (wtf?)
dead or alive - you spin me right round (like a record)/misty circles
"weird" al yankovic - eat it/that boy could dance (!!)

wild rufus records in camden, maine.

hey, weird, you were shopping in portland, ian? where?

Enterprise Records and Time-Lag Records, both on Congress St.

Today I got Wolfking of LA (see thread) and the s/t Jerry Jeff Walker LP from '72 (awesome.) And Bongwater's "Double Bummer."

(not in Maine.)

time-lag and strange maine both rule. you should check out wild rufus, or record connection in waterville, if you haven't already.

"ian matthews - if you saw thro my eyes"

the richard farina covers on this are fantastic! although i still dig mimi's "morgan the pirate" better. god i love that song.

The Munster reissues of the Swell Maps sound better than any other versions that I've heard. I've got them in a few different forms, now. Picked up Marineville last week to complement the Jane I got sometime in the winter. Guess I found out about the singles box set too late, though. Still need "Let's Build a Car." I think that Nikki remastered them for this release. There are great interviews on the sleeves, Jowe talking about playing the vacuum cleaner on "Midget Submarines" Cause he came in halfway through its creation and there was nothing else to do..

How's the Bill Quick LP, Ian?

So - anyone care to give a brief synopsis / review of the Boris 'Smile' Vinyl edition - I'm picking up from the rekkid store on Friday and I'm hearing some mixed reviews (sound quality, song order, etc.) ...

i refuse to have any knowledge of boris/southern lord vinyl/cd variations. life might not actually be as short as some people say it is, but it's too short to deal with stuff like that.

just get the diehard version of everything. forever!

i've been listening to the gentleman jesse & his men lp for the past week. i think he should have held a couple of those singles back for the album.

Well said Scott - I've seen on a few boards that the mastering/production varies greatly from the CD and I was more wondering if it was a bad batch or something ...

ah, okay.

when i see these reviews for the new boris and the american version is judged seperately from the japanese version...i don't know what to think. kinda silly somehow.

or maybe i'm still smarting from the time that i fell in love with rza's ghost dog soundtrack only to find out later that the japanese version is WAY WAY Better. (still haven't heard it.)

has anyone got any of those fancy 2LP metallica reissues? wondering if they sound super awesome and worth the $$?

Still need "Let's Build a Car."

Reposted from elsewhere:

Anyone else notice the MASSIVE decrease in vinyl pressing quality over the past decade or so? Seems to be particularly true of records pressed in Czechoslavakia by tiny labels, but even bigger indies like Sub-Pop suffer for it. Can't tell you how many records I've bought over the past three or four years that have had a big ol' repeating "skrtch" noises running a good way through one or the other side. Sometimes both sides. Nothing but a lazy, half-assed pressing job. Encountered this recently on vinyl from Pissed Jeans, Mudboy, Raionbashi, Woelv and Electric Wizard, among others.

The crap sound quality is especially ironic/galling when the record-object is absurdly fetishized, as with all those inch-thick, crazy colored Pirates Press jobs that (for instance, prime culprits) Southern Lord & Hydra Head put out. If you're gonna spend a ton of money on snazzy/grody packaging, why not try to put a decent-sounding record in there along with it?

In bringing this up, I'm thinking in particular of recent stuff on S-S and Columbus Discount Records, both of whom, like a lot of garage/punk labels, go for relatively restrained (dirt-cheap) packaging. I understand that $$$ is tight and that audiophile fidelity is anathema to that crowd, but some of the vinyl they put out is so shitty sounding as to be nearly unlistenable. Hate to have to buy CDs versions of LPs I already own just to hear the fucking music...

yeah i my blonde redhead vinyl of the last one isn't great.

Matador does good stuff that "HQ" vinyl or whatever gimmick, but it sounds good.

Mad props 2 Sundazed! Their regular non-nerd-boner-180 gram stuff sounds better than some deluxe stuff.